Summer School 2025
Juniors: 6 to 12 years old
Week One : 28th July - 1st August
Week Two: 4th - 8th August
Seniors: 13 to 19 years old
Stage Acting : 4th - 8th August
Screen Acting: 11th - 15th August
You don't need to have experience or be a big personality to join us. All you need is to love making up stories, acting out characters and using your imagination.
Our CRB checked tutors are trained, professional actors with bags of enthusiasm and experience. They are looking for bright young talents who like working in a team and who want a week of challenge, fun and achievement.
senior summer school - 13 to 19 years old
Stage Acting
4th - 8th August
Develop your acting skills through this engaging week-long practical acting summer school.
Throughout this exciting program, students will work on a diverse range of different texts, encompassing both modern and classical works, and will have the opportunity to explore various acting tools and techniques, such as Stanislavski, Laban, and Meisner, in order to effectively enhance their acting skills. This will be a fun yet informative week filled with discovery and creativity, culminating in a short performance in our Lantern Theatre on the Friday afternoon, where participants can showcase what they have learned.
No previous acting experience is required for this course—just bring your enthusiasm, curiosity, and readiness to step into the spotlight!
Screen Acting
11th - 15th August
If you're passionate about movies and TV and have admired moving and memorable performances, our Introduction to Screen Acting course provides the perfect gateway to on-camera work.
Here, you’ll gain practical experience of working with a camera. The focus is on combining the technical discipline needed for screen work with simple script and character work. You will explore practical exercises and work towards a short on screen performance, with playback opportunities to track your progress and refine your skills. Working solo and in groups, you’ll also begin learning the art of taking direction—key to any successful screen actor.
No previous acting experience is required for this course—just bring your enthusiasm, curiosity, and readiness to step into the spotlight!
Seniors is open to students aged 13 to 19 years old.
The course is five days long Monday to Friday from 10am to 5pm. All participants are fully supervised at school but being a little older and with parental permission, they are allowed out for lunch (or they can bring a packed lunch) and sign themselves in and out at the beginning and end of each day.
The senior Summer School runs along similar lines to our Youth Theatre.
Fees:
Seniors course costs £225
(A non refundable deposit of £70 (per child /young person) is required to book a place and balance of fees is due 4 weeks prior to commencement of the course.)
junior summer school - 6 to 12 years old
Week One: 28th July - 1st August
Week Two: 4th - 8th August
The course is five days long Monday to Friday from 10am to 4pm with a performance at 4pm on the Friday. All participants are fully supervised at all times and should bring a packed lunch. Students must arrive with, and be collected by, a nominated adult.
Students have daily classes in Acting, Movement, Musical Theatre and Theatre Making. There will be a theme for the week and the emphasis is very much on having fun through drama. Don't worry if you are not all singing all dancing neither are we. These are drama based classes but we see singing and moving as just another part of acting. We will never ask students to perform anything they are not comfortable doing and we will always work hard to find a part that you are happy with.
To complete the week, we invite your friends and family to come along and be entertained by the work you and your new Theatre Company have created.
Juniors usually work in two groups devided by age: 6-9 years old and 10-12 years old.
Fees:
Juniors course costs £195
(A non refundable deposit of £70 (per child /young person) is required to book a place and balance of fees is due 4 weeks prior to commencement of the course.)
our ethos
Established in 1997 ACT is the only Drama School on the South Coast offering professional actor training. We bring the same ethos and expertise from our Adult Actor Training to our Youth Theatre
As well as developing confidence and the ability to work as part of a team students studying drama have the opportunity to develop skills and understanding in creative problem solving, communication, self-discipline, tolerance and empathy.
Drama allows children to be active learners and engage and experience a vast range of ideas and situations in a non- competitive and encouraging environment. Drama can give children an outlet for emotions, thoughts and dreams that they might not otherwise have a means to express.
We believe that the real benefit of drama for children is in the exploration and development of the work - but performance is also a big part of drama - as well as a fun and exciting platform to demonstrate your skills. So end of course showings are geared towards 'work in progress' in a safe and supportive atmosphere. All students are given equal stage time and we embrace diversity in terms of ability and experience.
our approach
These are practical classes that develop a range of communicative and interactive skills as well as self-awareness and self-discipline. Any children's Drama School, course or class will advertise and praise the benefits of Drama - and it is true Drama can be hugely beneficial for children
However there is a world of difference between running around and playing a few games and a structured well balanced programme of activities that develop skills in a positive and safe environment and then allows for those skills to be put into practise.
Drawing on our professional and educative expertise we have developed a programme that utilizes the work not only of great acting practitioners like Stanislavski, Michael Chekhov and Augusto Boal but also children's drama specialists like Viola Spolin, Dorothy Heathcoat and Gavin Bolton. Mixing the methodology of these tried and tested practitioners with the practical experience of our acting tutors means that our courses have both a solid educative core as well as being full of fun, adventure and discovery.
“Every child is brilliant in his or her own way. Drama classes motivate children to think in new ways and move in new directions to explore their relation to each other, themselves and their environment. Playing theatre games helps to draw out the natural intelligence and humour inherent in each student, creating opportunities to explore their unique abilities and explore their own treasure house of creativity”
If you have any questions, or simply want to find out more, please contact us at;
The Academy of Creative Training
8-10 Rock Place
Brighton
BN2 1PF
England
Tel: +44 (0)1273 818266
Email: info@actbrighton.org
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